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remastering with a new kernel - how???

iam trying to remaster BOSS Linux (its a Debian based distro like Ubuntu) with a new kernel, i understand that not too many people know about BOSS, so even if anybody knows how to remaster Ubuntu or Debian or any other debian based distro's install cd to new kernel version please help :)

1. Unpack the iso, copy the contents, and look at the "isolinux.cfg" file to see the kernel/initrd options
2. Replace the kernel/initrd options with your own (and of course replace the actual kernel and initrd). You may want to actually unpack and look at the initrd to see what goes in it. In fact you may want to base your new initrd on the older one - just replace the kernel's module directory with your own.
3. If you have 'grub', attempt to boot with that kernel/initrd just to make sure the kernel boots (you may get a kernel panic later on when you get to the stage of switching into the final 'root' filesystem)
4. Remaster the *.iso, cut it and try it out

Hi pinniped, I did as u have said, however now the install CD doesnt work coz the checksums have changed. help!!! how do i remaster and recalculate checksums???

Hi,

Code:

excerpt 'man md5sum'

MD5SUM(1)                        User Commands                      MD5SUM(1)



NAME

      md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest



SYNOPSIS

      md5sum [OPTION] [FILE]...



DESCRIPTION

      Print  or check MD5 (128-bit) checksums.  With no FILE, or when FILE is

      -, read standard input.



      -b, --binary

              read in binary mode



      -c, --check

              read MD5 sums from the FILEs and check them



      -t, --text

              read in text mode (default)



  The following two options are useful only when verifying checksums:

      --status

don't output anything, status code shows success



      -w, --warn

              warn about improperly formatted checksum lines



      --help display this help and exit



      --version

              output version information and exit



      The sums are computed as described in RFC  1321.  When  checking,  the

      input  should  be a former output of this program.  The default mode is

      to print a line with checksum, a character  indicating  type  (`*'  for

      binary, ` ' for text), and name for each FILE.

You can read the 'man md5sum' to see how.

To compute the md5sum for a file, then 'md5sum somefile' will compute and create a md5 for the file.